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@MattBro MattBro commented May 22, 2026

Problem

PostHog Code today is a list-of-tasks UI for orchestrating cloud agents. The "Barbados hackathon" team (Schmidt, Aly, Sean, Steven, Brooker) built an RTS-style alternative — instead of a queue, you place "nests" (goal containers) on a 2D map and watch "hoglets" (agent runtimes) work the goal, with a hedgehog acting as the orchestrator. Internal codenames during development were "Hedgemony" and briefly "Hogcraft"; the official name landing here is PostHog Code RTS mode / code-rts.

It's hokey on purpose, but it surfaces orchestration state in a way the list view can't (idle vs working hoglets, PR dependency graph, FinOps cost overlay, signal ingestion). Goal of this PR: land what we have as the v1 surface so we can iterate stacked PRs on top. No expansion of scope beyond what shipped at the hackathon demo.

Changes

High-level

  • New feature behind RTS_FLAG (rts-enabled PostHog feature flag). Off by default; toggle on the user/account for opt-in.
  • New tRPC namespace rts.* under apps/code/src/main/trpc/routers/rts.ts, backed by ~10 main-process services in apps/code/src/main/services/rts/.
  • Renderer feature at apps/code/src/renderer/features/rts/ (map view, sprites, dialogs, audio).
  • DB additions consolidated into a single new migration 0007_rts_schema.sql (Schmidt flattened the per-slice chain — see his commit message for the rationale). Originally numbered 0006 during hackathon development; renumbered to 0007 during the merge with main since main shipped a 0006_youthful_warstar migration in the interim.

Static assets — hosted externally, not bundled

918 short voice mp3s (3 fun modes × 2 genders × ~50 lines × 3 takes) plus a BGM track are served from a Cloudflare R2 bucket ph-code-rts, fronted by code-rts.posthog.com:

  • Default base: https://code-rts.posthog.com/static/code-rts/
  • Overridable per-build via VITE_CODE_RTS_ASSETS_BASE_URL
  • Bundle impact: 0 MB (would have been ~7 MB if bundled)
  • Asset uploads via cloudflare/wrangler-action from a separate PostHog/code-rts-assets repo (Schmidt owns).

Voice lines were generated via ElevenLabs Multilingual v2 (mp3_22050_32) under PostHog's ElevenCreative Starter commercial license. Voice IDs documented at the CDN in CREDITS.md. The generator script lives at scripts/rts/generate-voice.mjs and re-runs idempotently against notes/rts/voice-lines.json.

Sub-features

  • Nests + Hoglets: place a nest on the map, give it a goal prompt and definition-of-done, spawn hoglets to work the goal. Hoglets are agent runs (existing PostHog Code task infrastructure) attached to a nest.
  • Spec import: seed a nest from a local spec file (Schmidt added 2026-05-26 — useful for long drafting sessions before committing to a goal).
  • Hedgehog orchestrator: tick-based loop that perceives hoglet state every turn (terminal output + tool calls), can hold/inject/decompose/dismiss/spawn-follow-up. Signal ingestion (cloud SignalReports → hedgehog nudges) is an explicit operator opt-in.
  • PR graph: per-nest visualization of PR dependency edges; right-pane editor for follow-up linkage.
  • FinOps panel: raw API cost overlay (per-nest, per-hoglet, per-workload). Gated behind RTS_FINOPS_FLAG (rts-finops-enabled) and an @posthog.com email check — figures are raw cost, not consumer pricing.
  • Fun modes: none / pirate / lolcat voice line variants for the hoglets, per-gender.
  • Audio: BGM during map view, throttled voice lines on hoglet events, sfx via WebAudio.

Feature flags involved

Flag Default Purpose
rts-enabled off Master gate for RTS mode UI
rts-finops-enabled off FinOps panel + money-hog sprite (also @posthog.com-gated in code)

Both flags created in PostHog admin (US project 2).

How did you test this?

  • Typecheck: clean (pnpm --filter code typecheck).
  • Manual: demoed end-to-end at the Barbados hackathon (place nest, spawn hoglets, watch tick loop, validate goal completion, voice + BGM playing, FinOps overlay rendering raw cost) — see #hackathon-hedgemony channel for video clips.

History: this branch has ~275 commits + a merge from main. Plan to squash-and-merge so main gets one clean commit.

Publish to changelog?

No — feature is off behind a flag and we'll publish to changelog when we promote to a default-on / GA experience in a follow-up PR.

MattBro and others added 30 commits May 14, 2026 01:00
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Two bugs were stacking on top of each other:

1. findPath snapped goals radially out of obstacles via pushOutOf, so a
   click that landed inside a nest's inflated radius ended up on a random
   side instead of where the builder was heading. The move marker still
   flashed at the raw click, so the visual lied. Replace with snapGoal
   that walks from `to` toward `from` and returns the first unblocked
   point — destination lands on the perimeter facing the approach.

2. startWalk used builderPath[lastReachedIndex] (last waypoint reached)
   as `from`. Mid-walk the sprite is between waypoints, so Framer Motion
   animated straight from its current screen position to path[1] — a
   segment the planner never verified clear. Builder visually cut through
   buildings. BuilderSprite now writes its live motionX/motionY into a
   MutableRefObject the view reads at re-plan time.

Also: flash the move marker at the resolved goal (not the raw click) so
feedback matches reality.

Generated-By: PostHog Code
Task-Id: 79742b9d-d8d9-401b-b68c-3747ff4c1604
Replace the framer-motion spring on NestSprite with imperative animate()
+ useMotionValue (mirrors BuilderSprite), so travel time is proportional
to distance with a smooth ease-in-out and no overshoot. Swap the static
builder-hog image for AnimatedHedgehog playing the walk cycle while in
flight (facing flips on dx) and idle when stopped.

Generated-By: PostHog Code
Task-Id: 91d23dea-43fe-4eef-a802-a9e9eead128b
Add a "Movement feel" subsection under Map controls noting the two rules
that make unit motion read as RTS: constant world-space speed (so duration
scales with distance — no position-keyed springs) and a smooth ease with
no overshoot. Record current per-unit speeds, ease curves, and the
walk-anim + facing-flip requirement so future units inherit the feel.

Generated-By: PostHog Code
Task-Id: 91d23dea-43fe-4eef-a802-a9e9eead128b
…rops

Replace CSS-gradient backdrop with a single SVG that ships hand-coded
prop sprites (oak, pine, bush, flowering bush, boulder, boulder cluster,
stump, wildflower, mushroom) plus turbulence-based terrain mottling and
a fine grass-noise tile. Props are deterministically scattered (seeded
RNG, biased per zone, y-sorted for painter-algorithm depth) and avoid
nest rings and the map center.

Drop the dashed rounded-rect zone containers in favor of soft tinted
ellipse blobs with crisp DOM-rendered topographic labels.

Generated-By: PostHog Code
Task-Id: 891ff882-ecbf-44d7-854d-395dd52895df
Replaces the placeholder builder-hog-in-a-ring with a dedicated nest
illustration. The building is its own asset; the hedgehog is composited
on top at the entrance only when the nest is non-dormant, so empty/quiet
nests read differently from active ones at a glance.

Generated-By: PostHog Code
Task-Id: 0c93951f-834c-45b8-bc26-f7300def8b2e
GoalSpecDraftService now returns a structured feature specification
instead of a flat goalPrompt string. The app renders the accepted
spec as editable Markdown with user stories, requirements, and
success criteria — giving the hedgehog a richer anchor for later
planning and completion judgment.

- Goal drafts produce structured fields (summary, primaryScenario,
  userStories with acceptance scenarios, requirements with FR-IDs,
  keyEntities, assumptions, successCriteria with SC-IDs, and
  definitionOfDone). The service assembles these into a rendered
  goalPrompt Markdown so the operator can review and edit before
  creating the nest.
- Single-turn under-specification guard still forces at least one
  clarifying question before proposing a spec from a short prompt.
- Nest creation audit records now include the planning method tag
  and label the persisted goal as "Spec" instead of "Goal" so the
  trail reflects the structured origin.
- PlaceNestDialog relabels the goal field as "Spec", increases the
  textarea to 10 rows for the longer rendered output, and updates
  transcript formatting to show the summary separately.
- spec-driven-development planning method is defined as a shared
  constant and inlined into the LLM system prompt so the gateway
  call applies it without a skill loader.
- Flood-filled the white background out of nest.png so it composites
  cleanly on the forest map.
- While the nest is in flight, fade the building out and scale the
  resident hedgehog up to ~88px centered, playing its walk cycle.
  When stopped, the hedgehog shrinks back to the doorway (44px @ 72%)
  and the building reappears. Restores the "hedgehog is the mover"
  read that the RTS-movement commit was going for.

Generated-By: PostHog Code
Task-Id: 0c93951f-834c-45b8-bc26-f7300def8b2e
The dialog used to upsert the created nest into the local store on
submit, so the sprite appeared the instant the form closed — before
the builder walked anywhere. Path planning then ran against the
already-rendered nest, and because the visual nest radius exceeds the
collision radius, the hedgehog could end up overlapping it.

Now the dialog hands the full nest to HedgemonyMapView via onCreated,
which parks it in a local pendingBuild state. The location is added
to the obstacle list during pathfinding (so the builder snaps to the
perimeter) but the sprite isn't committed to the store until the
build animation completes. Interrupts (right-click to move, starting
another build) commit the pending nest first so it always ends up
visible.

Generated-By: PostHog Code
Task-Id: 103b27e8-6844-495b-b336-a8350a73c250
Co-authored-by: PostHog Code <code@posthog.com>
Co-authored-by: Jonathan Mieloo <32547391+jonathanlab@users.noreply.github.com>
…rd math

- New useBuilderCoordinator hook owns path, walking/building/idle state,
  build timer, and the visualPosRef. View consumes builder.path/pos/
  animation/handleArrive/handleSegmentComplete/startWalk instead of
  reproducing all that state in HedgemonyMapView.
- Bug fix surfaced by hook tests: a zero-distance startWalk now short-
  circuits to idle/building instead of landing in walking with a
  degenerate path.
- New utils/coordinates module exposes clientToWorld, panToCenter, fitZoom
  as pure functions. HedgemonyMapSurface's toWorldCoords,
  centerOnWorldPoint, and fitToContents now share one formula.
- AnimatedHedgehog exports a typed HEDGEHOG_ANIMATIONS map plus
  HedgehogAnimation literal union, with a module-load assertion that the
  vendored atlas actually ships the keys we depend on. Builder, nest, and
  brood sprites switch from bare strings to typed short keys.
- Tests for the hook (10 cases) and coordinate utils (8 cases).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replaces framer-motion drag (which had pointer-capture races with nest
buttons) with a usePanCamera hook: rAF loop with delta-time integration,
displacement-based edge-pan, Shift to boost, and a debounced commit to
the persisted store. Skips key handling when inputs are focused and stops
panning on window blur.

Generated-By: PostHog Code
Task-Id: 96ee04d5-19cf-4a0c-840d-0dad54314d34
Adds five test cases for the onPendingBuildCommit + buildingFor flow
that landed on top of the coordinator extraction:

- commits the pending nest after build animation completes
- commits early when a non-build walk interrupts mid-flight
- handleArrive + timer firing only commits once (no double-fire)
- queueing a second pending build commits the first immediately
- no commit when no pending build was queued

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…y button

When the LLM gateway returns non-JSON content (prose, refusals, fences), the
goal-drafting flow used to dead-end with a raw "Goal draft response was not
valid JSON" error inside the nest builder dialog. Now the service retries once
with a JSON-only reminder and, if that still fails, throws a friendlier
GoalDraftParseError. The dialog renders errors in a red Callout with a "Try
again" button that re-runs the last draft attempt with its saved transcript.

Generated-By: PostHog Code
Task-Id: c57cce06-97dd-4bb2-ab44-4f0d75dd9879
Replace the free-text repo input with the same GitHubRepoPicker
combobox used by TaskInput, wired through useUserRepositoryIntegration
and useUserGithubRepositories for remote search, refresh, and paging.

Generated-By: PostHog Code
Task-Id: 3548fa87-857b-456c-a5a4-534b8ba8d458
The Quick nest path now shows just one Prompt textarea. Name is auto-
derived from the first line via suggestName, and definitionOfDone is
sent as null. Guided Build nest flow is unchanged.

Generated-By: PostHog Code
Task-Id: de95e906-c68c-49c4-9114-22759418294d
Replaces the parallel buildMode/relocatingNestId/pendingMode booleans in
HedgemonyMapView with a single discriminated union:

  type ViewMode =
    | { kind: "browsing" }
    | { kind: "placingNest"; creationMode: NestCreationMode }
    | { kind: "relocatingNest"; nestId: string };

Each interaction handler (handleMapClick, handleMapRightClick, ESC) now
switches on mode.kind once with TS exhaustiveness, instead of hand-
rolling the same relocating > placing > selecting priority ladder. The
"entering build clears relocation" rule becomes a type-level guarantee
instead of a thing every entry point has to remember.

Selection stays orthogonal to mode (persists across transitions).
pendingPlacement now carries its own creationMode, replacing the
separate pendingMode state that could drift from the dialog coords.

The HedgemonyMapSurface props are unchanged — buildMode and
relocatingNestId are derived from mode at the call site.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replace the static zen hedgehog with the builder hog and animate twigs
falling into a nest pile beneath it while the cloud sandbox spins up,
so the wait reads as construction in progress instead of a sudden cut.

Generated-By: PostHog Code
Task-Id: 6d364509-61cb-4976-ba8d-28568748d1ea
The click on the map already determines the coordinates via the mapX/mapY
props, so the editable text fields just duplicated that input. Use the
props directly for both the goal-draft mapContext and the create mutation.

Generated-By: PostHog Code
Task-Id: 3548fa87-857b-456c-a5a4-534b8ba8d458
The GitHubRepoPicker's popup is portaled outside the Dialog content
via @posthog/quill's portal, so picking a repo registered as an
interaction outside the Dialog and closed it. Suppress
onPointerDownOutside / onInteractOutside when the event originated
inside any Quill portal ([data-quill-portal]).

Generated-By: PostHog Code
Task-Id: 3548fa87-857b-456c-a5a4-534b8ba8d458
Generated-By: PostHog Code
Task-Id: f1dff979-c1d4-48e5-8ace-50048b587071
The previous fix checked event.target, which on a Radix
PointerDownOutsideEvent / FocusOutsideEvent is the dialog itself
(a CustomEvent dispatched at the content), not the clicked element.
That made the [data-quill-portal] guard never match, so picking a
repo still closed the dialog. Read the real target from
event.detail.originalEvent.target instead.

Generated-By: PostHog Code
Task-Id: 3548fa87-857b-456c-a5a4-534b8ba8d458
Previous loop faded all twigs at once and reset, so the user saw the
hedgehog bob and then a nest "appear" without intermediate building.

Borrow the RTS construction pattern: a permanent foundation of six twigs
is visible from frame one (so the user immediately reads "nest"), four
active twigs cycle in on a 3.2s loop staggered every 0.8s (so a new
twig is always landing), the hedgehog leans forward on each landing
beat (so it reads as a worker placing the twig), and a small dust puff
blooms at each landing point as feedback.

Generated-By: PostHog Code
Task-Id: 6d364509-61cb-4976-ba8d-28568748d1ea
Map should sound like an RTS unit surface, not a UI widget. Adds a
Web Audio singleton with eight self-contained recipes (select, order,
deselect, place, arrive, spawn, error, goalComplete) wired into the
corresponding HedgemonyMapView and SpawnHogletDialog handlers, plus
an ElevenLabs generator + 45 pre-rendered voice takes (Lily/George,
British) for the iconic select/order/goal-complete moments.

Actually, what I told ElevenLabs was that I wanted "Emily Blunt from
Edge of Tomorrow but for an RTS game." I dunno, seems pretty close ;)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Twelve useState calls were reset together in one effect and mutated by
a small set of transitions (start-draft, ask-question, propose-spec,
retry, submit). Pulling them into a discriminated reducer makes the
goal-draft state machine explicit and removes the parallel reset block,
matching the pattern already used for ViewMode in HedgemonyMapView.

Reducer is colocated with the component; tests cover field updates,
reset, simple-mode toggling, the three draft outcomes, and submit
failure restoring prior error semantics.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…wild

BroodHoglet and WildHogletCard each defined the same TaskStatus union
plus parallel lookup tables for status→animation, status→Radix badge
color, and PR state→color/label. The two components render
differently enough that they shouldn't be one component, but the source
of truth for "what does each status mean visually" should be one place.

No behavior change. Drops ~60 LOC of duplicated tables and removes a
class of "I updated one table and not the other" drift.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Move the Quill-portal outside-click guard into its own module so it can
be unit tested in jsdom without pulling in the trpc client. Adds a
regression test that fails if the handler reads event.target instead of
event.detail.originalEvent.target — that was the bug behind the dialog
closing when picking a repo.

Generated-By: PostHog Code
Task-Id: 3548fa87-857b-456c-a5a4-534b8ba8d458
MattBro and others added 30 commits May 19, 2026 17:17
The FinOps dialog shows raw API cost (not consumer pricing), so it's
restricted to @posthog.com accounts as intended. The two personal
gmail addresses were temporary demo entries flagged for removal
before merge.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Matches the official feature name "PostHog Code RTS mode". The flag
string value ("hedgemony-enabled") is unchanged for now — that's a
PostHog admin rename and can happen separately.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Renames the four hedgemony directories (renderer feature, main service,
asset images, notes) to rts/ and updates all import path references.
Identifier renames (HedgemonyController, hedgemonyStore, etc.) follow
in a separate commit.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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…rts*

Files-only rename within the already-moved rts/ directories (DB migration
filenames and assets/sounds/hedgemony-bgm.mp3 left untouched — migrations
are tombstones, bgm is moving to CDN separately). Internal identifier
renames (types, vars) follow next.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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…Rts*/rts*

Sweeps PascalCase types (HedgemonyEvent → RtsEvent) and camelCase
identifiers (hedgemonyNests → rtsNests, hedgemonyRouter → rtsRouter,
etc.) across the codebase.

Deliberately left alone:
- SQL table/index names ("hedgemony_nest", etc.) — migration tombstones
- The "hedgemony-enabled" feature flag string value — coordinate
  PostHog admin rename separately
- The trpc namespace mount key ("hedgemony: rtsRouter") — follow-up
  commit will rename that + downstream client refs

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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…a attrs

Renames remaining hedgemony references:
- trpc namespace mount: `hedgemony: rtsRouter` → `rts: rtsRouter`,
  plus all `trpcClient.hedgemony.*` / `trpc.hedgemony.*` / `trpcReact.hedgemony.*`
  call sites updated to `.rts.`
- Zustand persistence keys ("hedgemony-view-storage", "hedgemony-hoglet-positions")
  and localStorage key ("hedgemony-nest-draft") renamed to "rts-*"
- HTML data attribute `data-hedgemony-nest` → `data-rts-nest`
- ShortcutCategory enum and object literal keys renamed to "rts"

Existing-user impact: the persistence-key rename means anyone who had
Zustand state or the nest draft cached under the old keys will see a
reset on first launch. Acceptable for a feature still in hackathon scope.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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…ys, prose

Final sweep of remaining hedgemony refs after the structural renames:
- Logger scope strings ("hedgemony-voice" → "rts-voice", etc.)
- Analytics event names (HEDGEMONY_HOGLET_SPAWNED → RTS_HOGLET_SPAWNED,
  "hedgemony.hoglet_spawned" → "rts.hoglet_spawned")
- React component keys ("hedgemony-fullscreen", "hedgemony-hotkey-helper")
- sfxStore Zustand persistence key ("hedgemony-sfx-storage" → "rts-sfx-storage")
- Stale tRPC namespace ref in MarkValidatedDialog comment
- Prose in code comments and aria-labels

Still deliberately kept:
- "hedgemony-enabled" feature flag string (PostHog admin rename separate)
- SQL table/index names in db/schema.ts and db/migrations/ (tombstones)
- assets/sounds/hedgemony-bgm.mp3 file path (audio dir cleanup separate)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Last sweep — remaining hedgemony references that needed targeted edits:
- bgmStore Zustand persistence key ("hedgemony-bgm-storage" → "rts-bgm-storage")
- Remaining logger scopes ("hedgemony-cloud-task-client", "hedgemony-usage-pricing", "hedgemony-schemas")
- Worktree bootstrap branch prefix (`hedgemony-bootstrap-` → `rts-bootstrap-`)
- Hedgehog-id and task-branch prefixes in test fixtures
- Test fixture object keys mocking the tRPC namespace ({ hedgemony: ... } → { rts: ... })
- captureException property name (hedgemony_signal_trigger → rts_signal_trigger)

What's still labelled "hedgemony" by design:
- SQL table/index names in db/schema.ts and db/migrations/ (migration tombstones)
- "hedgemony-enabled" feature flag string in shared/constants.ts (PostHog admin rename separate)
- Code comments that accurately describe SQL table names (e.g. "writes the local hedgemony_hoglet sidecar")
- apps/code/src/renderer/assets/sounds/hedgemony-bgm.mp3 (audio dir cleanup separate)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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- Hedgemony's drizzle migration chain (0006_hedgemony_nest through
  0018_feedback_processed) is collapsed into a single
  0006_rts_schema.sql. The pre-flatten journal was already
  inconsistent — entries 0011–0018 had no snapshot JSON — so any
  future db:generate would have produced garbage diffs.
  Post-flatten, db:generate diffs cleanly against 0005_snapshot.
- SQL identifiers finish the Hedgemony→Rts rename: every
  hedgemony_* table and index is now rts_* (rts_nest, rts_hoglet,
  rts_nest_message, rts_hedgehog_state, rts_feedback_event,
  rts_pr_dependency, rts_operator_decision, rts_usage_event,
  rts_tick_log). The TypeScript identifiers (rtsNests, etc.) were
  already renamed; the SQL names had been left as tombstones to
  avoid migration churn, which the flatten makes free.
- The PostHog feature-flag key "hedgemony-enabled" is now
  "rts-enabled". RTS_FLAG was already the in-repo constant name;
  only the string value lagged. The cloud-side flag rename lands
  separately — until it does, anyone who had the old flag toggled
  on will see the renderer gates (CommandCenterView,
  CommandCenterToolbar, BgmPlayer) flip off.
- Remaining hedgemony strings outside the table-name strings are
  cleaned up: tsdoc comments naming SQL tables, one debug log, a
  raw-SQL test fixture, a test description, and the design notes
  under notes/rts/*.

Existing-DB impact: the flatten emits plain CREATE TABLE
statements, so a dev DB that already has 0006–0018 applied will
fail with "no such table: rts_hoglet" because drizzle sees nothing
newer to apply. Delete the dev DB once before launching:

rm "$HOME/Library/Application Support/@posthog/posthog-code-dev/posthog-code.db"*
BgmPlayer fetches from the CDN now (https://posthog.com/code-rts/bgm.mp3
by default, overridable via VITE_CODE_RTS_BGM_URL), so the local mp3
is dead code.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Adds a dedicated feature flag for the FinOps surface in addition to
the existing @posthog.com email gate. Lets us toggle the dialog +
toolbar chip + money-hog sprite off centrally without code changes
if we ever need to (e.g. while iterating on the cost figures).

- New flag: `rts-finops-enabled` (boolean)
- Dev default: on (via import.meta.env.DEV) so the team still sees it locally
- Production default: off until the flag is created + toggled in PostHog admin

Behavior:
- Non-PostHog accounts: still hidden (email gate unchanged)
- PostHog accounts with flag off: hidden
- PostHog accounts with flag on: visible (today's behavior)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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- Signal ingestion no longer starts implicitly on map mount.
  rtsSignalIngestionEnabled persists in electron-store and
  defaults to false: launching the app never silently begins
  spawning hoglets from cloud SignalReports, which removes a
  class of runaway-spawn risk on top of the existing
  nest-hoglet cap.
- A new toolbar control ("Signals on/off") flips the persisted
  preference and starts or stops the poll loop in one round
  trip. The mutation is optimistic with rollback-on-error so
  the button feels instantaneous, and it is the only callsite
  that toggles persisted state — cancel() still exists for the
  test-only path that stops the loop without persisting.
- Mid-flight disable is honored: isEnabled() is rechecked at
  every async seam in the poll path (before listSignalReports,
  before each batch iteration, before each ingestOne, after
  fetching artefacts). A toggle-off lands at most one report
  late, and only if its spawn had already committed.
- Once spawnSignalBacked commits, the HogletIngested emit is
  intentionally not gated — committing a hoglet to the DB
  without firing the UI/analytics event would leave the
  operator with no breadcrumb for the spawn. A regression test
  pins this invariant.
- The tRPC surface gains rts.signalIngestion.status and
  rts.signalIngestion.setEnabled and drops the now-redundant
  isRunning query; status returns {enabled, running} which
  subsumes the old endpoint.
Consolidates the per-asset URL/env vars into a single shared base:

- New `CODE_RTS_ASSETS_BASE_URL` in shared/constants:
  `https://code-rts.posthog.com/static/code-rts`
  (served from Stephen's Cloudflare R2 bucket `ph-code-rts`)
- One env override `VITE_CODE_RTS_ASSETS_BASE_URL` instead of the
  previous two (`VITE_CODE_RTS_VOICE_BASE_URL`, `VITE_CODE_RTS_BGM_URL`)
- voice.ts and BgmPlayer.tsx both build their URL off the shared base

The posthog.com static hosting plan got dropped in favor of R2 — see
the #hackathon-hedgemony thread starting 2026-05-20.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Two small leaks/silent failures the adversarial review caught:

- The Audio element created on mount was never released. Mount/unmount
  cycles (StrictMode, route changes) accumulated orphaned audio
  elements. Cleanup pauses, clears src, and nulls the ref so the
  next mount creates a fresh element.
- `audio.play().catch(() => {})` silently swallowed autoplay-policy
  rejections and network errors, leaving users with no debug path.
  Now logs via `logger.scope("rts-bgm")` like the rest of the audio
  module.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Moves files that were RTS-feature-specific out of shared directories
into dedicated `rts/` subdirs, so the boundary between core
PostHog Code and the (opt-in, feature-flagged) RTS mode is clearer.

- `apps/code/src/main/db/repositories/{nest,hoglet,hedgehog-state,
  nest-message,feedback-event,operator-decision,pr-dependency,
  tick-log,usage-event}-repository.{ts,mock.ts,test.ts}` → `db/repositories/rts/`
- `scripts/generate-voice.mjs` → `scripts/rts/generate-voice.mjs`
  (REPO_ROOT path adjusted for the new depth)
- All imports updated; no behavior change.

Also cleans up `.claude/stock-research/agent-usage.json` (leftover
Claude-Code agent-telemetry from the hackathon) and adds the
directory to `.gitignore`.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Replace eight `as unknown as` (and one `as StoredLogEntry[]`) casts in
`apps/code/src/main/services/rts/cloud-task-client.ts` with Zod schemas
that fully describe the cloud API response shapes for Task, TaskRun,
SignalReport, SignalReportArtefact* variants, and stored session log
entries. Each schema is pinned to its shared TS type via
`satisfies z.ZodType<...>` so any future drift between the renderer
shape and the cloud shape fails the build, not the call site.

The schemas live in a new `cloud-task-schemas.ts` alongside the client.
Required fields are required so malformed cloud responses throw a
`CloudApiResponseError` immediately, rather than producing a partial
object whose missing fields fail later (and farther from the cause).
Existing pr_url and branch validations are preserved.

Test fixtures grew `taskFixture()` and `taskRunFixture()` helpers so
the three mocks that previously relied on cast-driven leniency now
return shapes that match what production cloud returns.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Covers the handler files under apps/code/src/main/services/rts/hedgehog-handlers/
that previously had no colocated tests. Each test exercises happy path,
input-validation rejection, and at least one error/edge case using mocked
service dependencies (no DB, no electron).

Handlers covered:
- kill-hoglet (happy path, hoglet-not-in-nest, inactive skip, missing run id,
  cloud-task error)
- spawn-hoglet (primary-repo resolution, per-tick cap, unavailable repo,
  no-repo-resolvable, spawn failure)
- raise-hoglet (happy path, in-progress skip, rollback on start failure,
  per-tick cap, hoglet-not-in-nest)
- message-hoglet (route + audit, hoglet-not-in-nest, non-routable status
  passes targetRunStatus=null)
- link-pr-dependency (link + audit, same-task rejection, missing task,
  pr-graph error)
- unlink-pr-dependency (unlink + audit, missing edge, pr-graph error)
- rebase-child (rebase + audit, missing edge, pr-graph error)
- mark-validated (service call + stopDispatch, validation error,
  service error)
- request-repository-access (granted, denied, resolver error, validation)
- write-audit-entry (summary only, summary + detail, validation error)

Adds a shared test-helpers.ts with fixture builders for Nest, Hoglet,
HogletWithState, OperatorDecision, PrDependency, TickContext, and a mock
HedgehogToolDeps factory.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
NestDetailPanel was 974 lines with 22 useState hooks mixing chat, PR graph,
hoglet roster, validation, and metadata edit concerns into one render. Pulled
each seam into its own file under nest-detail/ so the parent panel becomes a
thin orchestrator (974 -> 221 LOC).

New files under apps/code/src/renderer/features/rts/components/nest-detail/:

- NestDetailHeader.tsx: console header, hedgehog ticking badge, relocate button
- NestMetadataFields.tsx + useNestMetadataEdit.ts: name / goal / definition-of-done
  fields with save-to-tRPC + per-field state owned by the hook
- ValidationBanner.tsx: validating / validated lifecycle banners
- HogletsSection.tsx: hoglet roster + HogletCard with release/retire dialogs
- PrGraphSection.tsx: PR dependency graph rows, edge unlink, state badge
- NestChatMessages.tsx + NestChatMessage.tsx: chat history list, scroll-to-bottom,
  and feedback / pr-graph routed message variants
- NestChatComposer.tsx + useNestChat.ts: chat composer state + send mutation
- NestDetailFooter.tsx: save / compact / archive footer buttons
- LabeledField.tsx: shared label wrapper

No behavior change: same JSX tree, same hotkeys (s / a / r), same dialogs,
same scroll-on-open behavior. The parent NestDetailPanel keeps shared
lifecycle derivation, archive handler, hotkeys, and the validation /
compact dialogs.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Splits the 1255-line hedgehog-tick-service.ts into three files, each with a
single responsibility:

* `hedgehog-tick-service.ts` (1045 LOC) — keeps the tick scheduler and
  perception orchestrator. Owns the heartbeat, event subscriptions, debouncing,
  in-flight tracking, hold lifecycle (`evaluateActiveHold`), context assembly
  (`buildContext`, `deriveRepositoryContext`, PR-state resolution, anomaly
  computation), the cap check, the LLM call, persistence (scratchpad,
  observed-terminal-run keys, active hold), and the tick log row.

* `hedgehog-decision-router.ts` (266 LOC, new) — owns handler dispatch and
  feedback correlation. Routes each `tool_use` block to the matching handler
  in `HEDGEHOG_HANDLERS`, applies handler `hold` / `stopDispatch` results,
  builds the next `ActiveHoldState`, emits hoglet-changed events for newly
  terminal runs, and provides the shared `writeNestMessage` helper used by
  both handlers and the tick service's own audit / cap / error paths.

* `hedgehog-tick-helpers.ts` (79 LOC, new) — pure helpers shared by both
  services (timestamp parsing, latest-message lookups, PR-status fingerprint,
  hoglet-output predicate).

Wired through DI: new `MAIN_TOKENS.HedgehogDecisionRouter` token, bound in
`container.ts`, injected into `HedgehogTickService`. The tick service
delegates to `decisionRouter.dispatch(...)`, `emitNewTerminalHogletChanges`,
and `writeNestMessage`.

No behavior change. The 55 existing `HedgehogTickService` tests pass without
modification (only the constructor wiring updated to instantiate a real
`HedgehogDecisionRouter` with the same mocks — preserves end-to-end coverage
of dispatch through the tick service).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two pre-merge cleanups from the reviewer-persona pass:

- AppLifecycleService.doShutdown() now explicitly calls .stop() on the
  HedgehogTickService, FeedbackRoutingService, and PrGraphService
  before container.unbindAll(). Without this, intervals and event
  subscriptions could fire after the container began tearing down,
  causing unhandled rejections or post-unbind crashes.
- The three services' start() calls in main/index.ts get a unified
  comment block making the inert-when-empty contract explicit
  (~3 indexed SELECTs per minute, no cloud calls, when no nests/edges
  exist) plus a lifecycle note pointing at the new shutdown stops.
- shared/constants.ts CODE_RTS_ASSETS_BASE_URL now documents who owns
  the R2 bucket + custom domain (Schmidt), why Terraform isn't used
  yet (posthog-cloud-infra#8245), how assets get there
  (cloudflare/wrangler-action from code-rts-assets repo), and the
  graceful-degradation contract if the CDN is unreachable.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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- Operators can import a hand-written spec from their workstation into
  nest creation via a native file picker. The markdown body becomes the
  nest goal verbatim (no conversational re-draft, which caps messages at
  4000 chars and rewrites into its own structure), the name comes from
  the first H1 or the file name, and the definition of done is parsed
  out of the spec.
- DoD parsing prefers any heading containing "definition of done" — even
  a numbered, titled one like "## 14. Success Criteria (measurable —
  definition of done)" — then falls back to success / acceptance /
  completion-criteria synonyms. When nothing parses, the dialog says so
  and asks the operator to add one instead of silently leaving it empty.
- Long drafting sessions no longer fail validation: the draft and create
  inputs accept up to MAX_GOAL_DRAFT_TRANSCRIPT (32) and the renderer
  clamps the transcript before sending, storing, and creating, matching
  the persisted cap. The draft service still only feeds the model the
  last 12 turns.
- Import provenance is honest: creation sends creationMode "imported"
  plus a transcript entry naming the file, so the nest records "Imported
  from a local spec file" rather than "Created from accepted goal draft".
- Mode-toggle invariants close the DoD-bypass holes. Ejecting an import
  to the simple form drops the import so it can't be created with a null
  DoD while still labeled "imported"; switching back to goal-writing with
  no draft reseeds the rough goal and clears name/spec/DoD, so no hidden
  but submittable guided spec can linger.
- Scoped to RTS only: extension (md/markdown/mdx/txt) and 512 KB size
  limits are enforced in SpecImportService, leaving the shared dialog
  port untouched. Draft-persistence caps are raised to the same import
  size so a large imported spec round-trips through localStorage.
- On a max_tokens response the hedgehog now discards the entire tool
  batch instead of executing a partially-emitted one. This removes the
  split where one spawn_hoglet reached cloud run creation while another
  arrived with no prompt and tripped the run-create validation. An audit
  entry and scratchpad note are written so the next tick retries with
  fewer, concise actions.
- Raise the hedgehog output budget from 4,000 to 12,000 tokens. At
  effort "max" the model's reasoning counts against max_tokens, so a
  4,000 ceiling reliably truncated before a multi-spawn batch finished
  emitting — the root cause of the truncation loop.
- Prompt guidance now steers toward one or two high-quality spawns over
  three verbose ones when the output budget is tight.
- The cloud task-run parser tolerates the detail serializer's sparse
  shape: team may be absent and branch / log_url / output / state /
  completed_at / error_message may be null or omitted, normalized to the
  shared main-process defaults. status, timestamps, and the output
  pr_url validation stay strict so genuinely broken responses still fail
  fast. This clears the cloud_api_response_invalid rejection on
  POST /tasks/{id}/runs/.
- Schema-rejection logs print dotted field paths (e.g. log_url) instead
  of [Array], and a stored lastUsedModel of null no longer logs a
  spurious "rejected" warning.
- Hoglet cloud runs (nest spawns, signal-report spawns, follow-ups, and
  raise_hoglet) now create PRs with pr_authorship_mode "user" instead of
  "bot", matching the default for manually-created cloud tasks. Combined
  with the operator's github_user_integration already resolved per-repo
  at spawn time, the resulting PR and commits are attributed to the
  operator on the GitHub contribution graph.
- The "Created with PostHog Code" PR footer is unchanged: it is injected
  by the cloud runner's agent prompt that all cloud runs inherit, so
  hoglet PRs keep the agent-work signal without carrying a bot author.
- Tests updated to expect "user" on the hoglet spawn and raise paths.
  The cloud-task-client passthrough test still asserts the "bot" mapping
  since the client continues to support both modes.
Conflicts resolved:
- .gitignore: combine RTS entries with main's additions
- apps/code/src/main/db/migrations/meta/0006_snapshot.json: keep main's 0006 (added default_additional_directories)
- apps/code/src/main/db/migrations/meta/_journal.json: keep main's 0006_youthful_warstar; append RTS as 0007
- apps/code/src/main/db/migrations/0006_rts_schema.sql: renamed to 0007_rts_schema.sql; new 0007_snapshot.json layers RTS tables on top of main's 0006
- apps/code/src/main/db/schema.ts: keep both new tables (defaultAdditionalDirectories + RTS tables); workspaces.additionalDirectories was auto-merged
- apps/code/src/main/di/tokens.ts: union of repository + service tokens from both sides
- apps/code/src/main/di/container.ts: union of bindings from both sides
- apps/code/src/main/index.ts: keep RTS service imports + main's SlackIntegrationService import
- apps/code/src/main/services/agent/schemas.ts: keep both UsageUpdate (RTS) and LlmActivity (main) events
- apps/code/src/main/services/agent/service.ts: emit both UsageUpdate handler + LlmActivity event
- apps/code/src/main/services/git/service.ts: keep getPrCheckRuns (RTS) and resolveReviewThread (main)
- apps/code/src/main/services/llm-gateway/service.ts: combine RTS betas/effort/DEFAULT_GATEWAY_MODEL with main's timeout machinery
- apps/code/src/renderer/components/MainLayout.tsx: keep both new hook calls; combine rtsFullscreen gate with main's expanded isOnNewTask
- apps/code/src/renderer/features/command-center/components/CommandCenterView.tsx: keep RTS isMap-gated visibleTaskIdsKey + main's useAutofillCommandCenter call
- apps/code/src/renderer/features/command-center/stores/commandCenterStore.ts: add viewMode to COMMAND_CENTER_INITIAL_STATE and adopt main's spread pattern
- apps/code/src/renderer/features/settings/stores/settingsStore.ts: drop duplicate type aliases (already lifted up by main); keep FunMode + main's TerminalFont + defaultReasoningEffort; only retain setFunMode in actions
- apps/code/src/renderer/features/sidebar/components/SidebarMenu.tsx: add RTS store imports
- apps/code/src/renderer/features/sidebar/components/TaskListView.tsx: combine highlightedTaskIds-aware isActive with main's isSelected/hideHoverActions props (3 sites)
- apps/code/src/renderer/features/task-detail/hooks/useTaskCreation.ts: adopt main's pendingTaskKey flow; carry RTS-only cloudPrAuthorshipMode + cloudRunSource fields into prepareTaskInput
- apps/code/src/renderer/styles/globals.css: keep both CSS comment blocks (RTS CommandConsole bevel + main's Quill Dialog overrides)
- apps/code/src/shared/constants.ts: keep RTS_FLAG, RTS_FINOPS_FLAG, CODE_RTS_ASSETS_BASE_URL + main's EXPERIMENT_SUGGESTIONS_FLAG
- packages/agent/src/adapters/claude/claude-agent.ts: combine RTS turnIndex/usageModel with main's breakdownInputTokens
- packages/shared/src/index.ts: keep both export blocks (acp-extensions from RTS + binary from main)

Cascade fixes beyond marked conflicts:
- apps/code/src/main/services/rts/feedback-routing-service.ts: getPrReviewComments now returns PrReviewThread[] (main changed the shape); iterate thread.comments instead of comments directly.
- apps/code/src/renderer/features/rts/components/SpawnHogletPanel.tsx: drop now-removed cloudAvailable prop on WorkspaceModeSelect and size prop on FolderPicker.
- apps/code/src/renderer/features/sidebar/components/SidebarMenu.tsx: drop unused useOnboardingStore import that survived hedgemony.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
CI surfaced two unrelated issues after the main-merge:

- `quality` (biome) flagged 34 import-sort errors across 22 RTS files
  whose import order shifted during the rename + nest-detail split
  + merge. Auto-fixed via `biome check --write --unsafe` on the exact
  failing-file list. Two leftover items needed manual tweaks: a
  `noNonNullAssertion` in a test (replaced `!` with an explicit
  guard) and a multi-line `biome-ignore` comment in useBuilderCoordinator
  that biome only recognises on a single physical line.

- `unit-test` was failing on the new repository tests under
  `apps/code/src/main/db/repositories/rts/*` with `ERR_DLOPEN_FAILED`
  on better-sqlite3. The package's install hook builds the native
  binding against Electron's NAN ABI by default; the unit-test job
  runs Node 22 (no Electron) which has a different NODE_MODULE_VERSION
  and refuses to load the binary. Added a `pnpm rebuild better-sqlite3`
  step between install and test in `.github/workflows/test.yml`.
  Integration-test (macOS, Playwright) doesn't need it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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The previous attempt (`pnpm rebuild better-sqlite3`) didn't work — the
prebuild-install binary was already there from `@electron/rebuild` and
`pnpm rebuild` is a no-op when prebuilds exist. Same NODE_MODULE_VERSION 145
error.

Real fix: the postinstall script that forces native modules to Electron's
NAN ABI now respects a `SKIP_ELECTRON_REBUILD=1` env var. The unit-test
workflow sets it during `pnpm install`, so the prebuild-install binaries
(built for the current Node ABI by default) stay in place, which is what
vitest needs.

Electron app contexts (dev, build, package) still get the Electron rebuild
because the env var is unset there.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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The agent-server logWriter errors in the CI log were red herrings (just
test logging output); the real failure was 2 assertions in
feedback-routing-service.test.ts expecting drain length 1 but getting 0.

Cause: main updated GitService.getPrReviewComments to return
`PrReviewThread[]` instead of `Comment[]`, and the feedback service
iterates `for (const thread of threads) for (const comment of
thread.comments)`. The test mock still returned flat `Comment[]`, so
the inner loop never executed and no events got emitted.

Fix: have `createMockGitService` synthesize a single thread per comment
in the new shape. Test call sites can still pass comments flat (they
don't care about thread structure).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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…don't hit the asset CDN

BgmPlayer's mount-effect created `new Audio(bgmUrl)`, which triggers a
network fetch to the RTS asset CDN regardless of the flag. The two
router hooks (useRtsPromptRouter, useRtsPrGraphRouter) likewise opened
tRPC subscriptions for every authenticated user.

Wrap all four under a single RtsRoot boundary that checks RTS_FLAG
once. When the flag is off, nothing mounts and no side effects fire.
- Operators can reopen a validated nest from the nest-detail footer,
  moving it back to active so the hedgehog resumes ticking. Reopen is
  guarded to validated nests (`nest_must_be_validated_to_reopen`);
  archived stays on unarchive and dormant is untouched.
- The reopen carries the operator's "what's left to do" as a nest-chat
  user_message, which outranks the hedgehog's own plans. An
  instruction-less reopen synthesizes a hold directive instead, so the
  hedgehog waits for direction rather than reflexively re-validating a
  definition of done that is still met.
- Create / unarchive / reopen now emit a distinct `activated` watch
  event; the tick scheduler forces an immediate tick on activation past
  the 30s debounce, while ordinary metadata saves keep emitting `status`
  and stay debounced — repeated name/goal/DoD saves no longer each spawn
  an LLM tick.
- A forced activation that loses the in-flight race (a reopen landing
  mid-tick) is queued as a single follow-up and drained when the running
  tick exits, so immediate reopen never falls back to the 90s heartbeat;
  the no-concurrent-ticks-per-nest invariant still holds.
The "Active nests / goal territory", "Wilds / ad-hoc hoglets", and
"Signal staging / unrouted signal work" labels hinted at game mechanics
that don't exist — there's no rule that nests must be placed in the
active zone, and the wilds/staging zones aren't meaningfully different
from the player's perspective.

Drop the labels and their backing fields on the Zone interface. Keep
ZONES itself for the tint ellipses and varied prop scatter, which give
the map visual texture independent of any naming.
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